Summary
Trump snapped at a reporter who asked how much economic pain he was willing to inflict amid plunging markets triggered by his new tariffs.
Speaking after a weekend at his Florida resort, Trump dismissed speculation he was trying to crash the market, claiming tariffs would bring in “$1 trillion” and spur U.S. manufacturing.
When asked about a pain threshold for Americans, he called the question “so stupid,” arguing economic “medicine” was necessary to reverse decades of “stupid leadership.”
He insisted the strategy would make the U.S. “solid and strong again.”
I’m in Australia, and I don’t see much of what you are suggesting is rampant. Yes, it happens, but there’s no way a charlatan like Peter Navarro would have risen to advisor to our political leaders without having been called out long before. Certainly, policy based on his fraudulent claims would have been tarred and feathered and ridden out of town.
Ah.
I am American.
I live in hell.
We have a much broader problem of corrupt grifters in… basically everything, at every level of society.
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Sorry for doing the American thing and assuming you are also American.
No problem at all. In more normal times, you’d be correct to do so. There’s a saying to the effect that when America sneezes, the rest of the world catches a cold. Basically, we’re all in this boat, hence the interest from off shore. Our Stock market lost billions today, for example… I’m watching with great interest, and just wish there was more I could do. Best wishes to you and every American who is sane :)